Conscious Connected Breathwork helps with anxiety by working directly on the nervous system, not just the thinking mind. A specific continuous breathing pattern temporarily quietens the part of your brain that monitors, analyses, and keeps you braced. When that internal gatekeeper softens, your body can begin to process and release the physical tension it has been storing, sometimes for years.
(more…)In the context of breathwork, tetany or “the breathwork claw” is a side effect that causes the fingers of the hand to typically close inwards into a lobster claw shape.
What it typically looks like when you are doing breathwork is below.
This is a temporary reaction by the body to what is going on at a chemical level in the body/blood.
(more…)There are many types of breathwork in existence. The style that I work with is Conscious Connected Breathwork. This style is known for working with the emotions in the body, often called “therapy without talking”. But how can something as simple as breathing have such profoundly healing results? The researchers are interested in finding out too…
(more…)I realise now that I had been subconsciously looking for something different that I could transition into, something that felt more aligned with a purpose than my Technology roles have ever managed, for a long time.
When I discovered Conscious Connected Breathwork it was quickly apparent that I had a passion for this practice. I knew that I wanted to train as a facilitator and then life made this very possible for me within quite a short time.
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